Other friends were working near the towers, and I tried to reach them, unsuccessfully.
The images of those crashing airplanes and falling towers have left a searing mark on our collective memory.
Internally, the wind towers present interruptions with offerings of natural light, natural breeze and water fountains - pleasant demarcations along the expansive internal circulation.
The towers, not only ground the buildings with their visual weight, but they also contribute to the rigor of rhythmic play needed in such expansive internal Spaces and environment.
Shakespeare towers above all other Elizabethan dramatists.
Weather permitting, toast the towers from the terrace of New Heights in the Bund.
The theoretical plate number "n" of distillation towers is an important data for distil - lation tower design.
These cumulonimbus clouds, which Simpson called "hot towers," act like chimneys for the warm, moist air rising from the tropical oceans.
Most Westerners, when viewing it, focus on the wave itself, which towers over Mount Fuji in a show of almost implacable force, all the more terrifying considering the three fragile boats under it.
Office towers shoot up, and the Audis clog the roads.
The delicate white tufa towers formed where freshwater springs percolate up from the bottom of the lake.
One bouquiniste near Notre Dame presided over a stall with only a handful of books, but rows of paintings of Eiffel towers, key-rings, ashtrays and even house number plaques and "dangerous dog" signs.
Unreachable towers protrude upwards from the dusty, earthy surface.
Philip Augustus makes a new dike for it. He imprisons Paris in a circular chain of great towers, both lofty and solid.
Only as you draw near to one do you realise that these towers are the height of 40-storey buildings; their blades are the length of a jumbo jet’s wing.
Shanghai has its European eccentricity, but little prepares you for the Gothic towers.
What dost thou here between the towers?
Robert never asks permission to perform his daring feats and is used to being arrested by the police at the top of the towers he scales.
After the attacks on the twin towers, liberals dusted off his ideas on a measured foreign policy as an antidote to the Bush administration's use of "preventative war".
In 1991 the owners of the power plant decided to improve the public perception of the Cruas station by ordering an ecologically-themed mural for one of the cooling towers.
He built towns in the Judean hills and forts and towers in the wooded areas.
Despite the global recession, the skyline continues to sprout apartment towers of dizzying heights.
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